Institutional Investors Embrace Alternatives

Seeking diversification, high returns and inflation hedging, institutional investors have flocked to alternatives.

New research from Preqin found that 79% of 12,500 investors in the company’s data base had exposure to at least one alternative asset class. More than half had exposure to private equity and 43% had invested in private debt. Almost 60% had real estate investments while just over a third had infrastructure exposure.